• contains 7-14 characters (eight characters is optimal)
  
• uses at least one upper case letter
  
• uses at least one special character
  
• uses at least one number
  
• uses as many character types possible (upper and lower-case letters, numbers, symbols)
  
• cannot be found in a dictionary.  For example, D0gb0n# can be found in the dictionary as Dogbone  (the letter o is keyed as zero, and the letter e is keyed as #)

• mVy6@oz?
  
• aBc1@3aB
  
• mE>8(ooW
  
• l8r?g8r!
  
• gRn8gs&H*(wK)

The next step to update my SSA email password using this new password. Click the link “Edit My Profile” (http://mail.ssafara.net:5002/cgi-bin/update-record.cgi) on the left side of SSAfara.net homepage.

The following “Choose a digital certificate” message may appear. Click the “OK” button to continue.

You will need to fill out the form below using your current password. Pick “Password” as the Update choice.

You will be taken to the following form:

Enter your new Schlumberger secure password and click the “Change Password” button. You will see the below image if your password was changed successfully.

If you the two passwords you type in do not match, you will receive the following error:

This means you need to try again.

There are websites that will help you generate passwords that will pass Schlumberger’s password security test. Strong Password Generator website (http://www.mytsoftware.com/dailyproject/PassGen/PassGen.html) will generate secure passwords. Below is a picture of the form you will find on the page. You need to fill in the password length, number of passwords you want to create, and pick password format of base95. Then you click the “Generate” button.

Below image shows the Strong Password Generator after it has created passwords.

You can test the password you use to use at SecurityStats.com website (http://www.securitystats.com/tools/password.php) to see how secure your chosen password is. This website contains many more password Do’s and Don’ts. This website will hide the characters you are entering so others around you will not see the password you are checking. The form will appear as pictured below once you have entered the password you are testing.

When you enter grape as a password to test you got the below results.

This means that grape does not pass the security test and it will not pass Schlumberger’s password security test either.

Next you entered gre3enegg5s as your password and receive the following results.

Again this password will not pass Schlumberger’s password security test.

You then entered mE8o44oW, one of the passwords from that was generated by the Strong Password Generator. Your results are shown below.

This means you now have a Schlumberger acceptable password.

• completion of SSA IT Security Test


• whether your record is tainted


• whether your password is probably known to someone other than yourself


• whether your password is the initial Directory password for a newly created record


• whether it is expired or locked

• The password was last changed by you (not a Directory expert or proxy);


• The selected password was strong (i.e. passed the SL IT password cracker).

• The password is too old;


• The account has been locked;


• The password may be known to more than one person (e.g. has been reset by someone);